Detail of poster by J. H. Twachtman advertising Harold Frederic's 1896 book The Damnation of Theron Ware; or, Illumination. A psychologically astute portrait of a straitlaced young minister confronted by modern freethought and hedonism, the book became an international best-seller, and Frederic's most popular novel. From the archives of Stone & Kimball, the Chicago publisher of the novel, a collection acquired by the Newberry Library in 1970.